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FEATURES

Recent Developments By Staci Golar and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation)

Seven Directions By Lisa LaRue-Baker (Cherokee Nation)

Art+Lit Boderra Joe: Diné Poet, Journalist & Photographer By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD

Calendar By Abby Mikalauskas

Textures and Seasons: 20 The History and Art of Hopi Silver Overlay A relatively recent development, silver overlay has become a vehicle for Hopi artistic expression By A.M. Palmer 48

Marco Temporal : Indigenous 32 Art & Activism in Brazil A legal thesis threatens Indigenous claims to their ancestral lands. Brazilian Indigenous use art to alert the world By Mariana Brazão

REVIEWS Exhibition Reviews

MEMORIALS Sam English (Turtle Mountain/Red Lake Chippewa, 1942–2023) By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD

Hal Homer (Oneida Indian 91 Nation, 1973–2023) By Frank Buffalo Hyde (Onondaga) Watson Honanie 92 (Hopi, 1953–2023) By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) with advice from Gloria Lomahaftewa (Hopi/Choctaw) Baje Whitethorne Sr. (Navajo, 1950–2023) By Nanette Kelley (Osage/Cherokee Nations)

Spirit of the Corn 40 A photo series exploring the Seneca’s relation to corn with model Morgan Huff, modeling regalia by Karlene Familo and Alexia Stevens (all Seneca Nation) By Hayden Haynes (Seneca Nation)

ARTIST PROFILES

cover Rainy Naha (Hopi-Tewa), Interlocking Parrot Jar, natural clay, earth pigments, beeweed slip. Photo: Charles King. Image courtesy of King Galleries.

Looking Back: 28 Bob Haozous’s Cultural Crossroads of the Americas Controversy around a public sculpture reverberates today By Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD

James Fendenheim: Tohono O'odham Jeweler & Sculptor By Anya Montiel, PhD (Mestiza/ Tohono O'odham descent)

David Martin: Pokagon Potawatomi Tattoo Artist, Painter & Regalia Maker By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD

Rainy Naha: Hopi-Tewa Ceramic Artist By RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo)

Amber Webb: Yup'ik Visual Storyteller By Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, PhD (Alutiiq)

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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS MUSEUMS The Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina, has changed its name to ᏣᎳᎩ ᎢᏗᏴᏫᏯᎯ ᎢᎦᏤᎵ ᎤᏪᏘ ᎠᏍᏆᏂᎪᏙᏗ, or the MUSEUM OF THE CHEROKEE PEOPLE. Founded in 1948, the museum serves the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the many visitors to the Qualla Boundary. Museum graphic designer Tyra Maney (Eastern Band Cherokee/Navajo) redesigned the museum’s water spider logo. The museum also launched its new website, MotCP.org. KATUAQ CULTURAL CENTRE in Nuuk, Greenland, hired Ivaaq Kriegel (Kalaaleq) as its new executive director. An artist, hunter, and educator, Kriegel earned his master’s degree from Aalborg Universitet in Denmark. He serves on the Nordic Council of Ministers’ committee for culture and art. Kriegel previously worked as a study assistant in Ilisimatusarfik. The MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURES (MIAC) in Santa Fe has named Danyelle Means (Oglala Lakota) as its interim director. Means previously served as executive director and head curator of the Center for Contemporary Arts, director of advancement at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and executive director of the IAIA Foundation. She earned a BA degree from the University of South Dakota and MA and MPA degrees from Marist College. In November MIAC’s executive director, Polly Nordstrand (Hopi), left her position and moved to California. MIAC also hired Elisabeth Stone as its deputy director in October. She earned her doctoral degree in anthropology and her master’s degree in anthropology and museum studies, both from the University of New Mexico. She previously worked at the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND WESTERN ART, based in Indianapolis, hired Monica Jo Raphael (Grand Traverse Odawa-Ojibwe/Sicangu Lakota) to serve as its new Thomas G. and Susan C.

below Cherokee Art Market best of show winner Demos Glass (Cherokee Nation) with his winning steel sculpture, Two Realms (2023). Photo: Stacy Pratt, PhD (Mvskoke).

The MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION in Vaughn, Ontario, hired Emily Laurent Henderson (Kalaaleq) as its associate curator of Indigenous art and culture. Previously she was a curatorial assistant at the Art Gallery of Ontario, executive assistant at the Indigenous Curatorial Collective, and profiles editor of Inuit Art Quarterly. She earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology at the University of British Columbia. The ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM in Tucson, Arizona, has appointed Erin Joyce as its curator at large and advisor on curatorial initiatives. Joyce previously served as a creative director and fine arts curator at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. She earned her museum studies master’s degree from John Hopkins University and her art history bachelor’s degree from the University of North Texas.

Hoback Curator of Great Lakes Native Cultures and Community Engagement. Raphael is a quillwork and beadwork artist who has worked with tribal communities and in education, human services, and cultural programs in Oklahoma and throughout the Upper Midwest. The INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hired Michelle J. Lanteri as head curator of its museum and rotating galleries. She previously served as curator of collections at the Albuquerque Museum and curator of collections and exhibitions at the Millicent Rogers Museum. Lanteri earned her doctoral degree in Native American art history from the University of Oklahoma and her master’s degree from New Mexico State University. CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART in Bentonville, Arkansas, hired Jordan Poorman Cocker (Kiowa/Tongan) as its new curator of Indigenous art. Cocker earned her master’s degree in museology from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and is in the doctoral program at the Auckland University of Technology. She also served as the collections manager at the Osage Nation Museum.

T he Sm it hs on i an’s NAT IONA L MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY hired archaeologist Dorothy Lippert (Choctaw Nation) as its repatriation program manager. Lippert will be the first woman and first Native person to hold this position. Lippert previously served as the tribal liaison for the museum’s repatriation office.

ART MARKETS Demos Glass (Cherokee Nation) won best of show at the Cherokee Nation’s 18th Annual CHEROKEE ART MARKET at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tulsa in Catoosa, Oklahoma. Classification winners were Bryan Waytula (Cherokee Nation), two-dimensional; Demos Glass, sculpture; Pati Belgarde (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), beadwork/quillwork; Michael Dart (Cherokee Nation), basketry; Troy Jackson (Cherokee Nation), pottery; Alberta Henderson (Navajo), textiles; Abraham Begay (Navajo), jewelry; and General B. Grant (Eastern Band Cherokee), diverse art forms. Special award winners included Hollis Chitto (Mississippi Choctaw/Laguna/Isleta Pueblo), Culture Keeper Award; Monica Silva Lovato (San Felipe Pueblo/Kewa), Innovator Award; Michael Toya (San Felipe Pueblo), Jesse Hummingbird Legacy Award; and Tama Roberts (Cherokee Nation) and Troy Jackson, who both won the Anna Mitchell Award.

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